The Hostage Crisis Continues: Why Obama Can’t Pivot to Jobs and Growth
It’s a sad truth. Admit it or not, Republicans have just won the 2012 elections even before we have waged the first primary. Obama can talk about jobs as his top priority all he wants but Reich makes a valid argument about what jobs are there for the government to create if he comrpomised not to spend a penny on something extra that can stimulate the economy? Sadly the compromised bill does not even talk about how to create jobs in the private sector.
Obama has nobody to blame but himself for allowing the GOP to tie his hands to not spending more, for allowing them to run away with the false illusion that spending on things like the stimulus did not work.
Or maybe he was too blind or blinded by the reality that the GOP was handing him a bill that only guarantees his defeat in 2012. I mean why would the GOP come out in big numbers to support the bill when this President would be lucky to just get Olympia Snowe (or even fellow Democrat Ben Nelson) on other major pieces of legislation like the stimulus? That only means the “party of NO” knows this only means Obama can’t forward his aggressive economic agenda anymore.
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